The corpus record — Latin

quasillum

quasillum · n

a small basket

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

quăsillum — Lewis & Short

quăsillum, i, n., and quăsillus, i, m.dim.qualum,

I a small basket for various purposes; esp., a wool-basket (class.), Cato, R. R. 133.—Of wool-baskets: inter quasilla pendebatur aurum, in the spinning-room, Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 10: pressumque quasillo Scortum, who must spin, i. e. low, mean, Tib. 4, 10, 3; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 37.

In the wild

quasillum Cato, De agri cultura 133
quasillo Cato, De agri cultura 133
quasillum Cato, De agri cultura 133
quasillis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.13.p3
quasillis Propertius, Elegiae 4.7.41
quasillo Tibullus, Elegiae 3.16.3

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.